Selahattin Demirtas, a former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), will serve four years and eight months in jail, state media say. He came third in June's presidential ...

Selahattin Demirtas, of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), came third in this year's presidential elections, contesting it from jail. The ECHR said his detention had the "ulterior ...

FILE - A cardboard cut-out of Selahattin ... most Western states. Demirtas led the DEM between 2014 and 2018, when it was known as the Peoples’ Democratic Party, or HDP, and he is still widely ...

This week’s European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling calling for the release of a “terrorist” former party leader amounts to nothing, said Turkey’s interior minister Thursday.